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TIL Justing Bieber held an online contest for where his ‘fans’ decided where to send him on a Tour.. Results: North Korea

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0ddlj TIL walruses are capable of eating birds and seals by using their powerful sucking mouthparts to strip the meat off their prey
ZGYY TIL There is a fungus, which when smelled, is capable or producing spontaneous orgasms in females.
ne7Lo TIL that American Civil War Union soldiers were issued 36 pounds of coffee a year and the word "coffee" appeared more in journal entries than "war," "bullet," "cannon," "slavery," "mother" or "Lincoln."
PYAGe TIL about Bass Reeves, the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River and a former slave. Over the course of his career, he had made over three thousand arrest, never got wounded (except for his hat and belt), and became one of Judge Issac Parker's most valued deputies.
Z89oo TIL the television show “Star Trek” aired 22 years before the first evidence of an exoplanet, in 1988, (planet outside our solar system) and 26 years before the first confirmed observation of exoplanet.